Lasionycta sasquatch

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Lasionycta sasquatch
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Lasionycta
Species:
L. sasquatch
Binomial name
Lasionycta sasquatch
Crabo & Lafontaine, 2009

Lasionycta sasquatch is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Washington Cascades south of Snoqualmie Pass, Saddle Mountain in the Oregon Coast Range, and the Siskiyou Mountains in south-western Oregon.

The habitat is subalpine parkland at two locations in the Washington Cascades. The largest series examined was collected in old growth mid-elevation forest with Tsuga heterophylla , Pseudotsuga menziesii , Abies species and Thuja plicata

The wingspan is 30–36 mm for males and 30–33 mm for females. Adults are on wing in early and mid-July.


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